Tim Strayer's Publications

William Timothy Strayer

Books, Chapters, and Specifications

Virtual Private Networks: Technologies and Solutions: Ruixi Yuan and W. Timothy Strayer, Addison-Wesley, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001.
PeachPit (Pearson Education)
XTP: The Xpress Transfer Protocol: W. Timothy Strayer, Bert J. Dempsey, Alfred C. Weaver, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1992.
Botnet Detection Based on Network Behavior: W. Timothy Strayer, David Lapsely, Robert Walsh, and Carl Livadas, Chapter in Botnet Detection: Countering the Largest Security Threat, Wenke Lee, Cliff Wang, David Dagon, eds., Springer, 2008.
Evolution of Factory Communication: W. Timothy Strayer and Carmen M. Pancerella, Chapter 16 in The Industrial Electronics Handbook, David Irwin ed., CRC Press, 1996.
Xpress Transport Protocol Specification, Revision 4.0: XTP Forum, XTP-95-20, Strayer, W. Timothy, editor-in-chief, March 1, 1995. Postscript / PDF

Papers

Efficient Flow Filtering for Botnet Search Space Reduction: Robert Walsh, David Lapsley, and W. Timothy Strayer, Proceedings of Cybersecurity Applications and Technologies Conference for Homeland Security (CATCH), March 3-4, 2009, Washington, DC. PDF
SLINGBot: A System for Live Investigation of Next Generation Botnets: Alden Jackson, David Lapsley, Christine Jones, Mudge Zatko, Chaos Golubitsky, and W. Timothy Strayer, Proceedings of Cybersecurity Applications and Technologies Conference for Homeland Security (CATCH), March 3-4, 2009, Washington, DC. PDF
IMRG Workshop on Application Classification and Identification Report: Tim Strayer, Mark Allman, Grenville Armitage, Steve Bellovin, Shudong Jin, and Andrew W. Moore, Editorial contribution to ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 38, Issue 3 (July 2008). DOI
Efficient Multi-Dimensional Flow Correlation: W. Timothy Strayer, Christine E. Jones, Beverly Schwartz, Sarah Edwards, Walter Milliken, and Alden W. Jackson, Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2007), Dublin, Ireland, October 15-18, 2007. PDF
A Topological Analysis of Monitor Placement: Alden W. Jackson, Walter Milliken, Cesar Santivanez, Matthew Condell, and W. Timothy Strayer, Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA08), Cambridge, MA, July 12-14, 2007. PDF
Detecting Botnets with Tight Command and Control: W. Timothy Strayer, Robert Walsh, Carl Livadas, and David Lapsley, Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), November 15-16, 2006, Tampa, Florida. PDF
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Identify Botnet Traffic: Carl Livadas, Robert Walsh, David Lapsley, and W. Timothy Strayer, Proceedings of the Second IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security (WNS), November 14, 2006, Tampa, Florida. PDF
Architecture for Multi-Stage Network Attack Traceback: W. Timothy Strayer, Christine E. Jones, Beverly Schwartz, Joanne Mikkelson, and C. Livadas, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Network Security, Local Computer Network s Conference, Sydney, Australia, November 15, 2005. Postscript | PDF
SPIE-IPv6: Single IPv6 Packet Traceback: W. Timothy Strayer, C E. Jones, F. Tchakountio, R. Rosales Hain, Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks, Tampa, Florida, November 16-18, 2004. Postscript / PDF
Privacy Issues in Virtual Private Networks: W. Timothy Strayer, Computer Communications, Volume 27, Issue 6, April 2004, Pages 517-521. Postscript / PDF
Understanding Encrypted Networks Through Signal and Systems Analysis of Traffic Timing: D. Cousins, C. Partridge, K. Bongiovanni, A. W. Jackson, Rajesh Krishnan, Tushar Saxena, and W. Timothy Strayer, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Volume 6, Big Sky, MT, USA, March 8-15, 2003. PDF
Single-IP Packet Traceback: A. C. Snoeren, C. Partridge, L. A. Sanchez, C. E. Jones, F. Tchakountio, S. T. Kent, and W. Timothy Strayer, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Volume 10, Number 6, December 2002. Pages 721-734. Postscript / PDF
Using Signal Processing to Analyze Wireless Data Traffic: C. Partridge, D. Cousins, A. W. Jackson, R. Krishnan, T. Saxena, and W. Timothy Strayer, ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe), Atlanta, GA, USA, September 28, 2002. Postscrip t / PDF
Hash-Based IP Traceback: A. C. Snoeren, C. Partridge, L. A. Sanchez, C. E. Jones, F. Tchakountio, S. T. Kent, and W. T. Strayer, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2001, San Diego, California, August 27-31, 2001. Postscript / PDF
Hardware Support for a Hash-Based IP Traceback: L. A. Sanchez, W. C. Milliken, A. C. Snoeren, F. Tchakountio, C. E. Jones, S. T. Kent, C. Partridge, and W. T. Strayer, Proceedings of the DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition (DISCEX) II, 12-14 June 2001, Anaheim, California, pp. 146-152, vol II. Postscript / PDF
FIRE: Flexible Intra-AS Routing Environment: C. Partridge, A. C. Snoeren, W. Timothy Strayer, B. Schwartz, M. Condell, and I. Castineyra, Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 19, No. 3, March 2001, pp. 410-425. Postscript / PDF
FIRE: Flexible Intra-AS Routing Environment: C. Partridge, A. C. Snoeren, W. Timothy Strayer, B. Schwartz, M. Condell, and I. Castineyra, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2000, Stockholm, Sweden, August 28-September 1, 2000. Postscript / PDF
Smart Packets: Applying Active Networks to Network Management: B. Schwartz, A. W. Jackson, W. T. Strayer, W. Zhou, R. D. Rockwell, and C. Partridge, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2000, pp. 67-88. Postscript / PDF
A Class-Chest for Deriving Transport Protocols: Strayer, W. Timothy, Proceedings of the 21st Local Computer Networks Conference, Minneapolis, Minn., October 13-16, 1996. Postscript / PDF
Reliable Multicasting in the Xpress Transport Protocol: Atwood, J. W., Catrina, O., Fenton, J., and Strayer, W. Timothy, Proceedings of the 21st Local Computer Networks Conference, Minneapolis, Minn., October 13-16, 1996.
Portable Run-Time Support for Dynamic Object-Oriented Parallel Processing: Grimshaw, A. S., J. B. Weissman, W. Timothy Strayer, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 14, No. 2, May 1996, pp. 139-170. (See University of Virginia Computer Science Technical Report TR-93-40)
An Object-Oriented Implementation of the Xpress Transfer Protocol: Strayer, W. Timothy, S. Gray, R. E. Cline, Jr., Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Advanced Communications and Applications for High Speed Networks, Heidelberg, Germany, September 26-28, 1994. Postscript / PDF
XTP as a Transport Protocol for Distributed Parallel Processing: Strayer, W. T., M. J. Lewis, R. E. Cline, Jr., USENIX Symposium on High-Speed Networking, Oakland, California, August 1-3, 1994. Postscript / PDF
A Parallel Object-Oriented Framework for Stencil Algorithms: Karpovich, J. F., M. Judd, W. Timothy Strayer, and A. S. Grimshaw, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Spokane, Washington, July 20-23, 1993. (See University of Virginia Computer Science Technical Report TR-93-13)
The Good News About Dynamic Object-Oriented Parallel Processing: Grimshaw, A. S., W. Timothy Strayer, P. Narayan, IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology: Systems and Applications, May 1993. (See University of Virginia Computer Science Technical Report TR-92-41)
Is XTP Suitable for Distributed Real-Time Systems?: Strayer, W. Timothy, Alfred C. Weaver, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advanced Communications and Applications for High Speed Networks, Munich, Germany, March 16-19, 1992. Postscript / PDF
Adaptive Error Control for Multimedia Data Transfers: Dempsey, Bert J., W. Timothy Strayer, Alfred C. Weaver, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advanced Communications and Applications for High Speed Networks, Munich, Germany, March 16-19, 1992. Postscript / PDF
A Study of Preemptable vs. Non-Preemptable Token Reservation Access Protocols: Strayer, W. Timothy, Computer Communication Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, April 1991. Postscript / PDF
MMPS: Portable Message Passing Support for Parallel Computing: Grimshaw, Andrew, D. A. Mack, W. Timothy Strayer, Proceedings of the 5th Distributed Memory Computing Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, April 9-12, 1990.
An Argument for Judicious Use of Error Detection Mechanisms in LANs: Strayer, W. Timothy, Alfred C. Weaver, Proceedings of the 14th Local Computer Networks Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 10-12, 1989. Postscript / PDF
ISO Protocol Performance Measurements: Strayer, W. Timothy, M. Mitchell, and Alfred C. Weaver, Proceedings of the ISMM International Symposium Mini and Microcomputers, Miami Beach, Florida, December 14-16, 1988.
Performance Measurements of Motorola's Implementation of MAP: Strayer, W. Timothy, Alfred C. Weaver, Proceedings of the 13th Annual Local Computer Networks Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 10-12, 1988.
Performance Measurements of Data Transfer in MAP: Strayer, W. Timothy, Alfred C. Weaver, IEEE Network, Vol. 2, No. 3, May 1988.
Error Prevention and Detection in Data Preparation for a Numerically Controlled Milling Machine: Kramer, T. R., W. Timothy Strayer, Proceedings for Intelligent and Integrated Manufacturing Analysis and Synthesis, Winter Annual Meeting of ASME, Boston, Mass., PED-Vol. 25, December 13-18, 1987.

Technical Reports

Kramer, T. R., and W. Timothy Strayer, ``Error Prevention and Detection in Data Preparation for the Vertical Workstation Milling Machine in the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility at the National Bureau of Standards'', NBSIR 87-3677, National Bureau of Standards, 1987.

Strayer, W. Timothy, Sharon K. Heatley, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Performance Analysis of Data Transfer in GM MAP,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-87-18, October 12, 1987.

Strayer, W. Timothy, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Performance Analysis of the Manufacturing Automation Protocol,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-88-03, February 1, 1988.

Strayer, W. Timothy, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Performance Measurement of Data Transfer Services in MAP,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-88-04, February 9, 1988.

Strayer, W. Timothy, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Performance Measurement of Motorola MAP,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-88-07, March 28, 1988.

Strayer, W. Timothy, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Performance Measurement of Motorola's Implementation of MAP,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-88-10, April 22, 1988.

Strayer, W. Timothy, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Performance Measurements of Motorola's Implementation of MAP,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-88-17, June 6, 1988.

Strayer, W. Timothy, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Evaluation of Transport Protocols for Real-Time Communication,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-88-18, June 7, 1988.

Strayer, W. Timothy, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Evaluation of Real-Time Transport Protocols,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-88-21, October 10, 1988.

Weaver, Alfred C., W. Timothy Strayer, and Bert J. Dempsey, ``Specification for a Real-Time Transport Protocol,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-89-02, January 10, 1989.

Dempsey, Bert J., W. Timothy Strayer, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Issues in Providing a Reliable Multicast Facility,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-89-15, November 29, 1989.

Strayer, W. Timothy, Bert J. Dempsey, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Making XTP Responsive to Real-Time Needs,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-89-18, December 1, 1989.

Davis, Timothy, W. Timothy Strayer, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Transmitting Graphics Images over a Local Area Network,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-90-31, November 14, 1990.

Strayer, W. Timothy, ``A Study of Preemptable vs. Non-Preemptable Token Reservation Access Protocols,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-90-32, December 5, 1990.

Strayer, W. Timothy, ``Communication Services for Real-Time Systems: An Examination of ARTS over XTP,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-91-34, December 6, 1991.

Strayer, W. Timothy, ``Function-Based Scheduling,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-91-35,December 6, 1991.

Strayer, W. Timothy, and Alfred C. Weaver, ``Is XTP Suitable for Distributed Real-Time Systems?'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-92-02, January 17, 1992.

Strayer, W. Timothy, ``Analysis of Deadline-Driven Scheduling Algorithms Using Function-Driven Techniques,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-92-11, May 4, 1992.

Strayer, W. Timothy, ``Function-Driven Scheduling: A General Framework for Expression and Analysis of Scheduling,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-92-12, May 14, 1992.

Narayan, Padmini, Sherry Smoot, Ambar Sarkar, Emily West, Andrew Grimshaw, W. Timothy Strayer, ``Portability and Performance: Mentat Applications on Diverse Architectures,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-92-22, July 22, 1992.

Grimshaw, A. S., W. Timothy Strayer, P. Narayan, ``The Good News About Dynamic Object-Oriented Parallel Processing,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-92-41, December 17, 1992.

Karpovich, J. F., M. Judd, W. Timothy Strayer, A. S. Grimshaw, ``A Parallel Object-Oriented Framework for Stencil Algorithms,'' University of Virginia, Department of Computer Science, Technical Report No. TR-93-13, January 27, 1993.

Grimshaw, A. S., J. B. Weissman, W. Timothy Strayer, ``Portable Run-Time Support for Dynamic Object-Oriented Parallel Processing,'' TR-93-40, July 14, 1993.

Strayer, W. Timothy, ``Meta-Transport User's Guide, Release 1.5,'' Sandia National Laboratories, SAND94-8645, July 1996.

Condell, M., W. Timothy Strayer, M. Fredette, A. Snoeren, C. Partridge, and I. Castineyra, ``Local Group Keying Protocol,'' BBN Technical Memorandum 1242, July 12, 2000.

Partridge, C., I. Castineyra, W. Timothy Strayer, A. Snoeren, and B. Schwartz, ``FLINT Protocol Specification,'' BBN Technical Memorandum 1243, July 12, 2000.

Snoeren, A., C. Partridge, W. Timothy Strayer, and I. Castineyra, ``FIRE Peering Protocol Specification,'' BBN Technical Memorandum 1244, July 12, 2000.

Partridge, C., I. Castineyra, W. Timothy Strayer, A. Snoeren, and B. Schwartz, ``FIRE State Message Protocol Specification,'' BBN Technical Memorandum 1245, July 12, 2000.

Snoeren, A. C., C. Partridge, L. A. Sanchez, W. Timothy Strayer, C. E. Jones, F. Tchakountio, and S. T. Kent, ``Hash-Based IP Traceback,'' BBN Technical Memorandum 1284, February 7, 2001.

Partridge, C., D. Cousins, A. W. Jackson, R. Krishnan, T. Saxena, and W. Timothy Strayer, ``Using Signal Processing to Analyze Wireless Data Traffic,'' BBN Technical Memorandum 1321, May 22, 2002.

Newsletters

Strayer, W. Timothy, ``Intel MAPNET2.1 Performance Measurements,'' Human Interface, iRUG (Intel iRMX Users Group) Newsletter, March/April 1988.

Strayer, W. Timothy, Alfred C. Weaver, ``MAP vs. EPA,'' Transfer, Vol. 1, No. 2., March and April 1988.

Weaver, Alfred C., W. Timothy Strayer, M. Mitchell, ``Why The World Needs Fast Transport,'' Transfer, Vol. 1, No. 3, May and June 1988.

Strayer, W. Timothy, M. Mitchell, Alfred C. Weaver, ``ISO Protocol Performance Measurements,'' Transfer, Vol. 2, No. 1, January and February 1989.

Weaver, Alfred C., Bert J. Dempsey, W. Timothy Strayer, ``Introduction to Multicast,'' Transfer, Vol. 2, No. 4, July and August 1989.

Weaver, Alfred C., Bert J. Dempsey, W. Timothy Strayer, ``XTP Multicast Group Management and Data Transfer,'' Transfer, Vol. 2, No. 5, September and October 1989.

Weaver, Alfred C., Bert J. Dempsey, W. Timothy Strayer, ``XTP Multicast Mechanisms,'' Transfer, Vol. 2, No. 6, November and December 1989.

Other Reports

Weaver, Alfred C., W. Timothy Strayer, ``General Motors Manufacturing Automation Protocol,'' Report to NASA Johnson Space Center, April 1987.

Strayer, W. Timothy, Alfred C. Weaver, ``An Introduction to the Manufacturing Automation Protocol,'' developed for graduate-level Networks course.

Tutorials and Invited Lectures

``Virtual Private Networks,'' with Ruixi Yuan, half-day tutorial given at the 25th Local Computer Networks Conference, Tampa, Florida, November 8, 2000.

``Virtual Private Networks,'' with Ruixi Yuan, half-day tutorial given at the 24th Local Computer Networks Conference, Lowell, Massachusetts, October 18, 1999.

"Protocol Issues in Satellite Communications," invited talk at Satellites and the Internet '99, Washington, DC, July 1999.

"Critical Issues for Networking in a Naval Environment," lecture at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Ca, July 1996.

``XTP and Other Light-Weight Transport Protocols,'' half-day tutorial given at the Second International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Spokane, Washington, July 20, 1993.

``The Xpress Transfer Protocol,'' with Alfred C. Weaver and Bert J. Dempsey, full-day tutorial given at the XTP Tutorial and Demonstration, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, December 7-8, 1992.

``The Xpress Transfer Protocol,'' with Alfred C. Weaver and Bert J. Dempsey, half-day tutorial given at the 17th Local Computer Networks Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 12, 1992.

``The Xpress Transfer Protocol,'' with Alfred C. Weaver and Bert J. Dempsey, full-day tutorial given at the International Workshop on Advanced Communications and Applications for High Speed Networks, Munich, March 16, 1992.

``Local Computer Networks,'' lecture to the Math Society at Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, March 1989.